Arnold Schwarzenegger

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strength. When you go through hardship and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

You will have failures in your life, but it is what you do during those valleys that will determine the heights of your peaks.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

I’m a great believer in anything that makes you 1 percent better. So I try everything. Freudian. Jungian. Est. Life Spring. Course in Miracles. Twelve Steps. I have pain from time to time. I have joy from time to time.

Focus is essential to success, and successful people are people who can focus.

A habit is like a cable: we weave a thread of it everyday, and at last we cannot break it – so we must form good, positive, and productive habits.

Projecting your mind into a successful situation is the most powerful means to achieve goals.

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small amount of Are makes a small amount of heat.

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Most people go along with the crowd. They do things because everybody else does it.

You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

When you do more than you’re paid for. Eventually, you’ll be paid for more than you do.

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.